Deliverance of Israel
1In that day,
the Lord will punish with his sword—
his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan the gliding serpent,
Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster of the sea.
2In that day—
“Sing about a fruitful vineyard:
3I, the Lord, watch over it;
I water it continually.
I guard it day and night
so that no one may harm it.
4I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
I would march against them in battle;
I would set them all on fire.
5Or else let them come to me for refuge;
let them make peace with me,
yes, let them make peace with me.”
6In days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will bud and blossom
and fill all the world with fruit.
7Has the Lord struck her
as he struck down those who struck her?
Has she been killed
as those were killed who killed her?
8By warfare27:8 See Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. and exile you contend with her—
with his fierce blast he drives her out,
as on a day the east wind blows.
9By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned for,
and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:
When he makes all the altar stones
to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah or incense altars
will be left standing.
10The fortified city stands desolate,
an abandoned settlement, forsaken like the wilderness;
there the calves graze,
there they lie down;
they strip its branches bare.
11When its twigs are dry, they are broken off
and women come and make fires with them.
For this is a people without understanding;
so their Maker has no compassion on them,
and their Creator shows them no favor.
12In that day the Lord will thresh from the flowing Euphrates to the Wadi of Egypt, and you, Israel, will be gathered up one by one. 13And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
以色列必蒙拯救
1到那日，耶和華必用祂無堅不摧的利劍懲罰海怪，那蜿蜒、快速爬行的蛇。祂必殺死那海中的怪物。
2到那日，你們要歌頌那佳美的葡萄園。
3我耶和華是看守它的，
我勤加澆灌，
晝夜守護，
不讓人毀壞。
4我不再發怒。
若是發現荊棘和蒺藜，
我就對付它們，
把它們燒光，
5除非它們尋求我的庇護，
要與我和好，
要與我和好。
6將來，雅各必扎根生長，
以色列必發芽開花，
果實遍地。
7耶和華豈像擊打以色列的敵人那樣擊打以色列人？
祂豈像殺戮以色列的敵人那樣殺戮以色列人？
8祂與以色列人為敵，
使他們被擄，
祂驅逐他們離開本地，
在刮東風的日子，用暴風吹散他們。
9雅各家的罪惡必藉此得到赦免，
他們罪惡被除掉後的碩果是：
把一切祭壇的石頭打得粉碎，如同石灰粉，
推倒亞舍拉神像和香壇。
10堅城荒涼，居所被遺棄，
如同曠野一樣杳無人煙。
牛犢在那裡吃草、躺臥，
吃光樹枝上的葉子。
11樹枝枯乾斷落，
婦女拿去作柴燒。
因為這是愚昧無知的民族，
所以他們的創造主必不憐憫他們，
也不向他們施恩。
12以色列人啊，到那日，耶和華必從幼發拉底河到埃及小河把你們一個個召集起來，像打樹拾果子一樣。 13到那日，號角大響後，亞述地將要滅亡的以色列人和流亡到埃及的以色列人，都必來到耶路撒冷的聖山敬拜耶和華。
